"We are not fine! We are totally not fine!" Jeff screamed, taking out a swarm of Imps and Hell soldiers in his wake.
Somewhere down the corridor on the site's sixth floor, Jeff, Jacob, several Scp guards and MTF soldiers were attempting to take out or capture the forces of the hell dimension that escaped out of containment and... Dr. Logan was continuously yelling at Jacob and Jeff not to kill them.
"I said capture them, you freaks! Not kill them!"
Ignoring his yells, Jacob punches a hole right through a Hell Razer's chest, killing it. At the same time, Jeff unleashed a flurry of punches on a Mancubus and dismembered him with his zippers.
"...Idiots."
"Hey! We're trying to keep you all alive, you dimwit!" Jacob yelled at the jackass researcher. He and Jeff were going to hold the demons off when they all of a sudden noticed they were fleeing.
"They're retreating?" An MTF Soldier spoke out.
"Or trying to make us think that they are retreating so that we follow them into an ambush." Jacob responded as he watched them running like cowards, "Let me use Epitaph."
Using his future-sighting ability, it projected an image of the future onto the floor. From what it showed him, he could see that the entire ceiling above him was going to collapse on top of him
"What?"
Looking up, Jacob noticed the entire ceiling was deteriorating and crumbling. Price of Decay was doing it but no one knows where. Instinctively, Jacob leaps forward, just in time as the entire ceiling collapses on the spot where he was. Turning around, Jacob saw that a lot of ceiling debris and metal pipes had blocked his path, preventing him from returning back to Jeff and the rest.
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"Hey Jacob! You ok?" Jeff shouted. For a short while, Jeff heard Jacob's voice from the other side of the debris blockade.
"Yeah, I'm fine!"
"Hold on! I'll use the zippers to-"
Before he could finish his sentence, the floor beneath Jeff, Logan, the MTF soldiers, and the SCP guards started to crumbled. Glancing back, Jeff caught sight of Price of Decay kneeling in the opposite end of the corridor, using his decay power by touching the floor with his hands.
"Son of a-"
Cutting his sentence once again, the entire floor underneath everyone collapses, sending everyone falling down to the ground and crashing head first into an unknown SCP containment chamber.
"Damn. We have another 106 in our hands." Jeff murmured as he and the others with him shakily rose from the ground and stumbled to their feet.
"Don't do anything to provoke them." Dr. Logan abruptly said, frozen in place as he stared at somewhere else.
"What?"
In confusion, Jeff turned away from the direction Dr. Logan had been staring, he now learned that the containment chamber they were in contained SCP-363, which were human-sized enormous centipedes. They were concealed in their mounds and were simply staring at them while looking through the mound's openings.
Then, they began to emerge from the mounds gradually and began to approach them with murderous intent.
"Bugs. Why did it have to be bugs?"
Staring at the enormous monstrosities, Jeff, the MTF Soldiers, and the SCP guards prepare themselves while Logan stays close to them as the centipedes draw near.
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"Hey Jeff! Are you there?" Jacob continues to yell, but all he hears is silence. For a few minutes now, he has been waiting for them to clear the rubble. He tries to call them again but no response.
He could only shrug and say, "Looks like I'll punch my way through the debris then."
When Jacob reels his fist back and prepares to smash the debris, he suddenly hears footsteps approaching from behind. Turning around, he noticed someone approaching him. As soon as the person reveals himself, Jacob's eyes widen when he gets a clear look of who it was.
"You!"
Gazing at the person in front of him, it reveals none other than D4C. The real one. Not the dimensional clone ones.
"King Crimson. The Stand of Diavolo. The ability to erase time and glimpse into the future. A deadly and perfect Stand for a man like him. Now you have become the Stand itself and are working with the foundation."
"You done mate?" Jacob asked deadpanly.
"Not a big fan of talking I assume?"
"Maybe. So you're responsible for everything that's happening right now?"
"Yes."
Clenching his fist, Jacob started approaching him as an aura of crimson red began to emit from his body.
"Oh? Your approaching me? Are you that confident that you could beat me with your time erasure and epitaph?"
"I'm not confident. I'm just sure."
"Then come as close as you like." D4C said and started approaching him.
Noticing D4C is moving in his direction, Jacob quickly scans his right arm and creates a ten second future image on what type of attack his opponent will execute. After seeing his future actions, he got what he needed. Now he just needs to deliver the killing blow on D4C, no holding back, no mercy.
As the two got closer and closer, D4C went for an attack with both of his fists, but Jacob had already predicted it.
"KING CRIMSON!"
The world around him crumbled and was replaced with stars and galaxies in an instant as time began to erase itself. Looking at the trajectory of D4C's attacks, he moves away from it and slowly approaches D4C from behind while he observes the path of the strike.
"Now to bloody end this."
As soon as time began to flow normally once more, D4C's strike struck the empty space where Jacob was, and at the same instant, Jacob appeared just behind him.
"It's over."
Clenching his fist, Jacob launches it and aims it directly at his chest to impale him and end this madness.
However...
Before Jacob's fist could make contact, a third arm emerged from D4C's back and used its hand to stab Jacob in the neck. This sudden twist caused his eyes to widen in shock.
"NANIIII?!"
As if he had predicted it as well, D4C calmly turns around and punches a hole straight through Jacob's abdomen, causing him to vomit out a mouthful of blood.
The third arm was revealed to be a D4C clone that had merged with the real D4C's body and successfully concealed himself inside of him. As the D4C clone separates itself from the real D4C, the actual D4C pulls his arm out from Jacob as he kneels down on the ground, holding his bleeding neck and abdomen.
"You might be thinking how is this possible? How did my epitaph not predict this? The answer is simple. Your epitaph can look ten seconds into the future and the time erasure can erase ten seconds of time, which is the only amount of time your abilities can go for."
Staring at the bleeding King, he started to explain King Crimson's biggest flaw, "I used the 11th second to my advantage, and since you can only see ten seconds into the future you couldn't see what would happened in the 11th second and your time erasure can only erase 10 seconds of time or less but you couldn't erase the attack that was about to happen at the 11th second, which also led to your downfall. In simple terms, I used strategy, knowledge and my abilities."
Coughing another mouthful of blood, Jacob mustered himself to speak, "I can... still fight!"
"I have a better idea. Join my side."
"And why should I?"
"You're working with the foundation who have no true control over anything and half of the people here are just cruel. One day or another they will not be able to contain these beasts anymore and they will lose everything, but with control we can keep so many things in check, control fate itself and the decisions of humanity itself with the Arrows."
"The arrows have a mind of their own. You can't use them to control something!" Jacob stated as the puddle of blood beneath him continued to increase.
Kneeling down in front of him, close an inch to his face, D4C murmured, "I need the arrows, yes, but I don't need to use them to control something. I wish to use the Stands that I get from the arrows to obtain control. You also might be thinking why do I need all the six arrows if I can just use one arrow to make Stands. Well... I just can't let other people get them and use them for their own crazy schemes and use them for destruction and chaos or for things that involve no control over anything. Now I will say this again. Join my side and help me in this road of control that I'm going for."
Kneeling down in silence, Jacob glanced at D4C for a couple of moments, until he raised his hand, and...
Give him the middle finger.
"...Go fuck yourself."
Standing up, D4C lets out a disappointed sigh before smashing Jacob's skull into the ground, cracking it as a result and instantly knocking him unconscious.
"Language."
Rubbing his fist neatly, D4C moves along the hallway with the D4C clone following him. Pulling out a radio, he called the person on the other end.
"Washichi, I'm on the 6th floor."
[Ok, then. According to what I found through the servers the arrow is in a vault on the 8th floor. I'll try to find a way to open it by hacking into the control terminal of the vault but the forces of the hell dimension are still wandering the 6th, 7th and 8th floors. They will attack you without hesitation but with your ability it won't be much of a problem. I'm also surprised our plan is going this well.]
"Because we cut our site-17 raid plan from two days to two weeks which gave us enough time to understand the site's layout and structure, especially knowing who our opponents are and finding flaws in their abilities and using that to strike them down. I knew if I target The World first he won't be a problem for us, then King Crimson who I just dealt with earlier and getting Abel out of their control."
Effortlessly breaking the reinforced steel door by casually tearing it apart, D4C continued to walk down the corridor until he spotted an elevator in the distance.
"This is what it means to prepare, Washichi. Take your time, analyze everyone's strengths and weaknesses then find the right time to finally strike. But still, we need to be careful in case the plan doesn't go right."
[Hai... hold up, boss I spotted someone on the cameras. It seems like Killer Queen and Spice Girl are on the 5th floor and Agent Green and Dr. Buck who have close range power type Stands are on the same floor you are in right now. So, any plans for them?]
"Hmm... Killer Queen is another time warping Stand that can be a problem for us. Washichi makes contact with Born this Way and Price of Decay's user and tells them to separate the two and slow them down. Green and Buck, I'll see what to do with them."
[Alright then.]
As the call ends, D4C gives his clone a piece of paper and says, "Make sure that one of them reads it somehow. I don't know how. Just find a way."
The D4C clone nods and enters the vents and heads for the fifth floor.
'Killer Queen, no doubt he knows I'm going for the arrow and that's why he's heading for the vault. The rest of his team who are on the upper floors may also be thinking the same thing as well so they'll try to patch things up quickly on the upper floors and head for the vault. Let's hope Scary Monsters can keep them more busy.' He contemplated, entering the elevator and heads to reach the lower levels.
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In the Infirmary, Evan was resting on a bed, his eyes closed and his whole chest wrapped in white bandages. At that moment, his eyes immediately open, he stood up and grunted in pain while clutching his chest and coughed up some blood.
As he sat there taking a breather and took a moment to collect himself, he noticed Molly approaching him.
"Evan, take it easy."
"I need to get to the others, Collingwood."
"Are you crazy?! The rest of the floors are in chaos right now and you're in no condition to fight after what D4C did."
"Collingwood-... cough! That Stand is not like every other Stand that we have faced until now. He's dangerous and he knew that I needed to be removed from the equation in order to make things easier for himself. He's way intelligent, which makes him more dangerous. Where is Robert?" he asked, referring to the one that became Crazy Diamond.
"Robert is dealing with some dinosaurs on the second floor right now with Spy, Lawrence and Krieg." She answered.
"Wait! Did you say dinosaurs?"
"Yeah."
"Scary Monsters is here as well."
"Scary Monsters?"
Hastily gets up from the bed, Evan rushes for the door, but Molly stops him.
"Evan, even if you use time stop and reach the others, your wounds will slow you down!"
"I don't care! Even if these wounds do kill me, I just can't let D4C and Scary Monsters run loose. So let me go, Collingwood. Please." He said, begging her to let him go.
"But what if they catch you by surprise?"
"Then I'll just not let them catch me by surprise."
Although she was hesitant to let him go, in the end, Molly eventually sighed and said, "Ok, go. But you better come back alive."
Nodding his head, Evan exits the ward and flies down the hallway, clutching the wound on his chest in pain.